160 BC

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Centuries:	3rd century BC · 2nd century BC · 1st century BC
Decades:	190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC
Years:	163 BC 162 BC 161 BC 160 BC 159 BC 158 BC 157 BC

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Syria

• Battle of Elasa Jewish leader Judas Maccabaeus is defeated by the Selucid army of Bacchides.

[edit] Rome

• Marcus Cornelius Cethegus becomes Roman consul.

[edit] Greece

• Tychandrus becomes Archon of Athens; Sosigenes is a thesmothete (assistant archon).

[edit] Bactria

• King Apollodotus I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom and Agathocles of Bactria die and are succeeded by Menander I (approximate date).

[edit] Scandinavia

• Berig succeeds Hwala as king of the Goths (approximate date).

[edit] Births

• Cleopatra III of Egypt (estimated).

[edit] Deaths

• Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Roman general.
• Eumenes II Soter, Attalid king of Pergamum.
• King Apollodotus I of the Indo-Greek Kingdom (approximate date).
• Agathocles of Bactria (approximate date).
• Judas Maccabaeus, Jewish leader (killed in battle).